Evaluation

This is the first shot of the video, we wanted to start the video with a very aesthetically pleasing shot as to entice the audience straight away. I feel we captured the beautiful sunset and calm ocean very well, it also sets the scene for the first half of the video, which is very calm and slow to begin with, just like the ocean.
All the members of our group provided a lot of enthusiasm and creativity, this is clearly shown throughout our video in some camera shots that I would be so bold as to call master pieces. We tryed to make as many of the shots as aesthetically pleasing as possible.

The next shot I will show provided an effect that the iMacs cannot, this shot started out as an accident but eventually provided a very high quality shot, we used the auto focus of the camera to provide a lovely fade.
As you can see where i walk out of the camera the shot goes from bright white and slowly focuses in on me walking away, the shot gives the effect that someone is waking up or 'opening their eyes'.
Like before the shot was very aesthetically pleasing, it was on the edge of a cliff and gave an overview of the beautiful dover harbor.

The next shot I will talk about is possibly my favorite of the video. Thanks to Daniel we found a terrific location in Dover's auditorium, you can see this below.
Like before this shot was very spontaneous, it only occured to us at the time that we could produce a shot that shows me teleporting around the auditorium, we filmed me in multiple places and then cut edited the clips using an overlap transition, providing a ghostly or superhuman feel about him, this ties in very nicely with the superhuman theme of the video.

This image symbolizes the slowdown of the video, it is with this calm painting motion of the singer that starts off the relaxing end of the video. After the eccentric and colourful party scene we needed a calming and concluding final 10 seconds, i feel we managed this very easily. We conclude with one of the first shots shown in the video, iron man on his own. However, this time Iron Mans girl appears showing that the the outcome of the video is Iron Man being accepted and getting a girlfriend, after that we wrote The incredible Snow Patrol in The Invincible Iron Man font, this keeps the iron man theme throughout the video keeping up the continuity.

We received quite a lot of feedback from our peers and teachers, almost all of it were positive. For example while presenting our media project to our peers to see how we could improve our project. We got told that our project flowed very well. This was crucial for us as we needed our project to play and match the music and flow easily. It was all so smooth that the viewers were able to watch and be absorbed by the video with no hiccups to take there mind away from the video. We got complemented on the syncing of the singing and acting. We were told our idea was extremely original, when they first heard the idea they thought it’d be too much and ridiculous, however with the good cuts, good syncing and overall plot we managed to make it a video that made the viewers (peers) connect with the characters. We were also complemented by our teachers and peers about our use of creative and original filming techniques. For example, our overlapping of clips to make the character appear to teleport, furthermore, the fact that we used upcoming events to our advantage, we decided that we wouldn’t get our characters to pretend they were adults as it would ruin the continuity of any video we made. So we decided to make sure it was young adults and older teenagers we played. Furthermore we realized the best way someone of our age enjoys themselves is at a part, such as a superhero and villains party. We went to this party and filmed our lead character (iron man) finally fitting in with society and enjoying himself.



We did however get two pieces of negative feedback, number one was our website homepage, apparently it was two bland, it didn’t have enough to it. After hearing our feedback we quickly resolved this issue by placing an advert for our album cover into the homepage. The only other piece of negative feedback we received was one person was unclear whether there were two storylines or whether there was one storyline and a band performing.



As well as the previous technologies I have stated we used we also used other technologies such as youtube, we really needed that to research other music videos, ones by snow patrol and other artists of that genre. We used I tunes to check out the potential songs that were needed, this really helped us find the right song for our project. Once we had found the project we used Bluetooth to transport it to the computers to the phones and back, we listened to the song hundreds of times so we could really get a feel for the song. We had to use imovie to sort out our storyboards, without this technology we would never have realized how drastically we needed to change our project. After filming our project with the high definition cameras we then had to cut and edit our entire footage, we had to use open office, gimp and Photoshop to construct our subsidiary tasks. The macs themselves caused us a lot of trouble, they were very useful for making our project, we couldn’t have done it without the macs, however, they crashed almost all the time. Personally i feel that the project a big success, even after all the problems we encountered we still managed to produce a very high quality video.

All the comic covers were personally edited using photoshop and gimp, they were never originally iron man comics, we had to photoshop iron man's face onto Stan Lee. We also had to get rid of the original script and replace it with our chosen script.